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It's not a stunt, it's total megalomania and you are falling for the coping tactic of pretending he's not serious in his literal statement to expand the borders of the US north and south.
None of this is new. Trump repeatedly brought up buying greenland during the first term when it was a suitable distraction from some other issue
Focus more on his actions, less on his words. If you focus only on his words you'll miss the bigger picture and miss what he really intends to do
That's stupid! Words are actions!
If you focus on every single one as gospel you'll be tripped up both ways. He is a walking contradiction of statements
In his first term he told North Korea there'd be "fire and fury like the world has never seen" and then the next minute was cosying up to him in a summit
He says anything and everything. He is certainly expansionist don't get me wrong, but focusing on individual statements will lose you the picture of where he is serious and where he isn't
Focus on who he appointments, what actions they take, what executive orders he signs, what he does with the military, etc.
Oof. Insults on the second exchange. Bad form, sir. Bad form.
Maybe you are, but the media tends to only hold on to a few things at a time. He wants to make it his stupid things like "Gulf of America" instead of "Gulf of Mexico" take up that spot. Not his insane pick for departments, not his plans for cutting social security, etc.
Authoritarian leaders do this all the time. They'll even use it to hide their actual expansionist plans. They'll threaten all kinds of people that they have no real intention of doing anything to so that actual military movments are drowned out as just noise
We have to be much more strategic about when we raise hell otherwise you'll appear to be the boy who cried wolf and won't be taken seriously. We can't be at defcon 1 at all times or it loses all meaning
This might be hard for you to hear, but you can't control what other people focus on and your strategy is stupid and bad.
Nothing will stop people from disregarding the people who raise hell. Raise hell anyway.